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From: Howard Lew <hlew@www2.shoppersnet.com>
To: "Mike O'Brien" <obrien@rush.aero.org>
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Subject: Re: Anyone noticed the new FreeBSD Netscape looping?
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On Tue, 12 Aug 1997, Mike O'Brien wrote:

> 	I've noticed that the new FreeBSD-specific Netscape 4.02b<whatever>
> seems to have a tendency to go into a hard loop upon trying to exit.
> Occasionally it does it when starting.
> 
> 	I'm running FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE on a machine with 16Mb of
> memory, and I'm here to tell you that this puppy page-thrashes, especially
> when you try using the newsreader section.  The solution to that is,
> "Buy more memory," or, alternatively, "Run a Web browser that's not such
> a pig."
> 
> 	However, this looping behavior is worrisome because it doesn't
> happen every time, just 2/3 of the time.  This Is Not Good.
> 
> Mike O'Brien
> 

I wonder if this has to do with 2.2.1 because I have seen quite a number 
of users with 2.2.1 reporting problems too.  But it seems to run fine on 
2.2.2 except for the occasional startup pause (15 to 20 seconds)... 
Occurs once in a while.